From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6 and diskless swap (nbd? nfs?)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:58:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040503135856.GF1188@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405030037490.22749@fogarty.jakma.org>
Hi!
> Just curious, what is one supposed to do for swap for diskless
> machines? Swap on NFS files refuses to work. Is swap on NBD possible
> (googling suggests patches were required - did these make it in to
> the kernel?). If not, is there any way at all to sanely do swap for
> diskless machines with 2.6?
There's no way to make swapping over network work.
nbd patches never worked 100% reliably.
You'd have to write "nbd over netpoll".
Pavel
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2004-05-02 23:41 Paul Jakma
2004-05-03 13:58 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-05-04 15:33 ` Paul Jakma
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